Yesterday we told you about Sen. Rand Paul weighing in after it was reported that the NIH contradicted Dr. Anthony Fauci and his previous claims about funding of gain of function research at the Wuhan lab:
“I told you so” doesn’t even begin to cover it here: https://t.co/9JFn85I24i
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 21, 2021
Senator Paul’s wife, Kelley, called out media hacks including CNN’s Brianna Keilar:
While Rand has been demanding transparency from Fauci for over a year, lowbrow hacks like @brikeilarcnn responded by calling Rand an a** on air. Giggling @GayleKing fangirled Fauci and ridiculed Rand, ignoring the point of his questions. Have any comments now, Gayle and Brianna? https://t.co/o899ljZjkA
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) October 22, 2021
Instead of perhaps backpedaling on the Dr. Fauci worship and focusing on the breaking news at hand, Keilar took aim at Rand and Kelley Paul:
I stand by my characterization of Sen. Paul and I’ll explain in a moment.
But first, on this letter from NIH, some important points: https://t.co/6GkHnEKIxU
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
Spinning on behalf of the Dems is obviously a job requirement to work for CNN:
The virus that was studied in this research, per NIH, could not be the SARS virus that causes COVID-19 any more than Sen. Paul could be a chimpanzee.
See here: pic.twitter.com/kEfz9m03NA
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
The theory Paul constructs, that Fauci’s covering up how covid is a man made virus unleashed on the world by the Obama administration because of a NIH research grant awarded in 2014, is not supported by this letter. It’s actually disproven by the information in the letter.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
There is alarming new info here though. The NIH says the research by grantee EcoHealth Alliance wasn’t aiming to achieve gain-of-function, but it did. That’s potentially dangerous and so they were supposed to report it. They didn’t until now.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
And back to going after Sen. Paul:
Now to the ass thing. Seeing as Paul is verifiably full of it I do think it’s an apt metaphor.
He claimed NYC had “community immunity” from covid when the immunity level was estimated at a meager 22%.
He told Americans at the height of the pandemic to throw away their masks.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
Sen. Paul also jeopardized the health of others, visiting the senate gym while awaiting a covid test result that would later turn out positive. And at the height of the pandemic he walked around the senate floor without wearing a mask.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
He was once very concerned about the pandemic, but not the one that has killed more than 700,000 in the US. The one that killed 1: Ebola. The difference, besides a death toll larger than the size of the population of Denver, was that Ebola happened while a Democrat was president.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
Finally, a couple words about Dr. Fauci before again quickly changing the subject:
Dr. Fauci and American public health officials should answer questions about oversight of this US-funded research. No public official is immune from scrutiny. But Sen. Paul, a bloviator of misinformation, is certainly not the man for that job.
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) October 22, 2021
THIS. Is CNN.
Kelley Paul responded this way:
Rand has been the ONLY person asking these questions. Your network certainly wasn’t. Yet when he did, you resorted to silly name-calling of Rand instead of reporting on the content of his questions or Fauci’s obfuscations. Bloviator of misinformation? Look in the mirror! https://t.co/GS4zOqFKu6
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) October 22, 2021
CNN knows what their job is, and it doesn’t involve sticking to the facts.
In response to the NIH letter saying, at best, that Fauci deflected on gain of function funding in Wuhan, a CNN anchor went after a Senator's wife. It's mind-boggling the more I think about it.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 23, 2021
Bloviator of misinformation calls Rand Paul a bloviator of misinformation https://t.co/qqkS32QCho
— Kevin McMahon (@Kevin__McMahon) October 23, 2021
It's crystal clear that the "mainstream" Briannas never pressed for a serious answer on this question. https://t.co/J93SLoeF31
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) October 23, 2021
Dr. Fauci is THE bloviator of MISinformation, just as this woman is… Of course, she works for CNN so that's a given. https://t.co/7EgXDcjc3Q
— Kimberly Morin (@Conservativeind) October 23, 2021
Of course you do. Because you are an absolute hack. Rand Paul was right.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 23, 2021
Imagine what the political landscape might look like if the media wasn’t mostly in the pocket of the Dems. Honest reporting on some of the current “science” hackery is desperately lacking.